fail-safe
Example Sentences
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He said the boats went “dead in the water” as an automatic fail-safe, which prevented them from causing damage or injury.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
Congress created the Insurrection Act as a fail-safe in response to armed mobs attacking their neighbors and organized militias seeking to overthrow elected officials.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
She followed my recommendation to take the DMV’s fail-safe eLearning course on her home computer.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
The penalty for entering a fail-safe command “with insufficient reason” was prison, fines, but Margery thought the legal system didn’t go far enough.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024
Encoding provided a measure of security but was not fail-safe.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
